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SubjectRe: [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

> This is really just due to bad coding in 'poll', or more precisely very bad
> for this case. For example, why is it allocating a wait queue buffer if the
> odds that it will need to wait are basically zero? Why is it adding file
> descriptors to the wait queue before it has determined that it needs to
> wait?

Because this is much easier to do in userspace, it's just not very
well documented that you should almost always call poll() with a zero
timeout first. However it's been there for years, and things have used
it[1].
There are still optimizations that could have been done to poll() to
speed it up but Linus has generally refused to add them.

[1] http://www.and.org/socket_poll/

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